Above: Helen’s interview for Systems of Sustainability (S.O.S.), Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, March 27 - 29, 2009. University of Houston. Arts festival and academic symposium, S.O.S. explored creativity as an integral tool for cultural growth and social change. The program includes site-specific projects, participatory activities, lectures, scholarly panels, and many opportunities for dialogue.

Selected Articles and Plans

Promoting Innovation: Standards and Dialogue for Public Art Resources
Coauthor Arvid Nelson, Curator
Special Collections, Andersen Library, University of MN

Waterfront Park Masterplan
with EDAW’s Jacinta McCann and Steve Hanson and Lango Hansen Landscape Architects, for Portland Department of Parks and Recreation

Still I'll Rise
Public Art Review #44

Public Art for Community Change
Building Communities, Not Audiences
Doug Borwick, editor

The Glory and the Dream of Public Art
Public Art by the Book Barbara Goldstein, editor

Selected Curated Exhibitions

Paradise Regained: Visionary Ecology and the Terrain of Ideals
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
Artists: Deena Caparelli, Andreas Hessing + Kathryn Miller, Deborah Lawrence, Marc Pally, Kim Stringfellow

Civic Duty: Building Art, Building Houston
Houston Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
Artists: Reginald Adams, Elmgreen + Dragset, Sharon Englestein, Matthew Geller, Tim Glover, Hirschfield + Ishii, Gordon Huether, Donald Lipski and Bert Long

More Than Words Can Say
Soil Gallery, Seattle WA
Artists: Deborah Lawrence, Erin Shie Palmer, Sara Pasti, Kay Sluslarenko

Selected Panels and Presentations

Soil Sample Kenya: Public Art and Ecology
Jinan West City Forum
Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China

Soil as the Foundation of Culture
2nd International Award for Public Art Conference
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Accumulation + Action: Public Art Collection Management
a four-part Webinar for Americans for the Arts

Dirt Dialogs
20th Anniversary World Congress of Soil Scientists, Jeju, Korea

Visual Resourcefulness and the Public Art Challenge
Visual Resources Association 31, Providence, RI. Panel organizer and moderator with digital art collection experts Jack Becker, Rachel Cain, Liz Keithline, Abby Suckle

Systems of Sustainability
University of Houston/ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX

Ground Work: Restoring Robert Morris' untitled Earthwork
Cambridge Arts Council, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Year in Review 2010 (co-presenter Fred Wilson)
Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network, Baltimore, MD